Rock Shrine No. 20 - Apple HQ
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3 Saville Row must be one of the most famous addresses in Britain. This was Beatles HQ when they formed Apple Records, famous for the rooftop concert recorded for the film Let It Be.
When they weren't on the roof they were in the basement studio. Here's a photo of the mixing desk:
When George visited San Francisco and the Haight Ashbury in 1967 he somehow invited a couple of Hells Angels to visit him in London. Sure enough they showed up six months later with a retinue of friends, including the actor Peter Coyote (he was a radical hippie back then) and author Ken Kesey.
Saville Row is one part of London that's resistent to change and therefore looks almost exactly as it did then. Next door is Gieves and Hawk, tailors to the royal household. Across the street is the back entrance of The Albany, the best address in London. Terence Stamp has lived here for more than 40 years.
Stamp shared a flat with Michael Caine before he got famous and moved here. If '60s Caine was movie cool then '60s Stamp was rock star cool. In Sean Levy's highly readable history of Swinging London, "Ready Steady Go" he ends the book with an image of Stamp slipping quietly out this back door while The Beatles play on the roof.
Apple HQ, 3 Savile Row, London W1S 3PB
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